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Jade Cargill was written out of WWE Survivor Series: WarGames and the tournament to crown the first-ever Women’s United States Championship on a recent episode of SmackDown, after an unknown assailant left her on a car, battered and bruised.
This week’s episode of Monday Night Raw featured a backstage attack on Jey Uso by what started out as an unknown assailant, but we can assume is likely to be Drew McIntyre, although that has not yet been 100% confirmed.
Then, last night on NXT, the episode ended with Eddy Thorpe being attacked by…you guessed it…an unknown assailant. This potentially puts his spot at NXT Deadline on the line.
My question for you today is “Is WWE going to this well too many times back-to-back, or are you okay with it? Who do you think should be the attackers for these angles?”
Remember to answer with your response in the comments below.
As far as my answer…
To answer the first part of my question, yes, I do think WWE is doing this too often.
It’s already become a joke that NXT was hanging on that trope so frequently that the parking lot turned into a meme. Hell, when I visited the WWE Performance Center a few weeks ago, the first thing I sent to people was a photo and the message of “I haven’t been attacked yet in the parking lot.”
Doing it twice in rapid succession is a lot, but three times? That’s starting to feel like WWE Creative just couldn’t come up with anything else and figured it’s fine to do it on each show.
I think what bothers me the most about that is that the mystery attacker angle isn’t even seemingly being built around the mystery attacker for most of this. Is anyone even talking about Cargill’s attacker, or is it just that Cargill was taken out of commission? Unless the plan is to specifically have someone pay the price, I think WWE would have been better off just making some kind of announcement about her being injured, if it’s a legitimate injury. Then again, if it isn’t a legitimate injury, and they pulled her from the match FOR this angle, they’re doing a poor job of making it not feel like it’s a priority. It’s actually starting to make me wonder if she was pulled not due to an injury, but because they didn’t want her in the matches, for some other reason. Strange.
The Jey Uso thing doesn’t feel yet like it’s going to really amount to much. If it’s McIntyre, then he suddenly has 2, if not 3 or 4 people wanting to fight him, and I don’t think WWE will be able to juggle that successfully. This feels like it shouldn’t have even happened, as I don’t think they’ll pick the storyline up in a great way, and I don’t think Jey needed to be written out of showing up in the main event to begin with. I guess we’ll see.
When it comes to Eddy Thorpe, I do think that one has a little potential, depending on who the attacker is. A lot of people are pointing the finger at Oba Femi, but I don’t see any actual reasoning other than “it’d be nice to see Oba Femi in this Iron Survivor Challenge match.” Even if that is the case, why would Ava award the attacker his spot outright? But what I find most intriguing would be if this is a punishment from The Bloodline after they thought Thorpe was responsible for Ava’s bump last week. Since we’re not seeing Hikuleo yet on SmackDown, maybe this is the means he’ll show up and turn into Ava’s bodyguard? Maybe it will be Lance Anoa’i instead? Or both?
More than anything, I just hope WWE actually has plans for these three angles and that they recognize that they can’t just copy and paste the same stories on all three shows in such a short time span without it looking like weak writing and, frankly, foolishness, as there should always be backstage cameras to address immediately who did the attacking.
What do you think? Drop your thoughts below!
